Summary
Sergey Baranov is a seasoned Linux engineer with over a decade of experience managing large-scale Linux/Solaris infrastructures for international banking and scientific organizations, including CERN, Credit Suisse, and UBS. He has operated and upgraded clusters and cloud fleets of 300+ servers across DEV/TE/PROD environments, led migrations (RHEL5→6) alongside Agile transformations, and overseen compliance, backup/recovery, and monitoring at scale. Proficient in automation (Ansible, Puppet), virtualization (KVM, OpenStack, Docker), and scripting, he combines hands-on system administration with software development experience in C++ and Python from HEP projects. Based in Zurich, he brings a rare blend of research-grade reliability from CERN and practical enterprise operations, often translating complex experimental tooling into robust production services. An owner-oriented engineer, he has led central service teams and built monitoring/backup integrations that improved observability and resilience across critical services.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Lomonosov Moscow State University
English, Russian, French